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To: Bob Ireland

The best Disc media uses a thin gold film. Memory sticks do not last copy the data every three or four years. I am lucky that I have an 8 year old computer that has only had 1 drive. I do have a backup drive.

Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus; Everything flows, everything is in flux, nothing is permanent, change is the only permanent thing, cant step in the same river twice. A reference to the impermanence of digital media. (God is permanent, we like flowers of the field wither and fade etc. Alas. I am feeling impermanent today.)


747 posted on 05/30/2018 4:25:15 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; Kalam
***Memory sticks do not last copy the data every three or four years.***

:^( Same with SD cards?

***Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus . . . cant step in the same river twice. A reference to the impermanence of digital media***

You should exchange ideas with Kalam. :^) All too true that, of all things, digital media is impermanent - even though we are eliminating paper records. Yikes!

***Alas. I am feeling impermanent today.***

Today? 😧

754 posted on 05/30/2018 5:06:52 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

** The disks I am referring to are CD type discs for home use. I was not thinking of internal discs.

(Returning to the subject of Q.)


757 posted on 05/30/2018 5:12:16 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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